Russia has made clear to Western nations that it has no objection to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad stepping down as part of a peace process, in a softening of its publicly stated staunch backing of Assad ahead of talks in New York, diplomats said. Russia, like Iran, has been...

  There "seems to be no agreement" on two key issues just hours before the latest international conference on Syria is held Friday in New York, Iran's foreign minister said. Mohammad Javad Zarif told The Associated Press on Thursday that his country has seen "no lists we can agree upon" of...

The five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council were struggling to agree on a draft resolution endorsing an international bid to end the five-year-old civil war in Syria ahead of ministerial talks taking place in New York on Friday. The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Powerful Syrian rebel group, Ahrar al-Sham movement, has mourned Thursday one of its senior commanders who has been killed in the southern countryside of Aleppo. Muthar Abdul Salam Hamdoun, also known as Abu Abdul Salam al-Sham, has lost his life in the ongoing battles with...